{"id":4447,"date":"2022-09-06T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2022-08-09T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:17:38","slug":"807-de-powered-supergirl-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/807-de-powered-supergirl-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"807 &#8211; De-Powered Supergirl Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-supergirl-reveal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-supergirl-reveal.png\" alt=\"Teasing Supergirl's reveal in Action Comics #278, May 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-supergirl-reveal.png 519w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-supergirl-reveal-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Teasing Supergirl&#8217;s reveal in <meta charset=\"utf-8\">Action Comics #278, May 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Action Comics #278 (May 1961) begins a multi-issue spanning Supergirl arc, starting with the revelation that Superman has decided to reveal the existence of Supergirl to the world. It&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/691-supergirl-finally\/\">more than two years<\/a> since the introduction of the Supergirl character and perhaps the writing team has run out of ways to make interesting stories out of Supergirl-acting-in-secret. They&#8217;ve given her some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/761-first-super-crush\/\">crushes<\/a>, sent her into the past to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/733-supergirl-meets-superboy\/\">meet Ma and Pa Kent and Superboy<\/a>, and sent her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/750-supergirl-and-the-legion\/\">into the future to be a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes<\/a>, so I guess it&#8217;s about time to stop prancing around the issue and have her revealed to the rest of the world, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong! At the <em>very moment<\/em> that Superman is going to reveal her existence to the world via a world-wide television broadcast, Supergirl discovers that her powers are gone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-supergirl-lost-powers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"475\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-supergirl-lost-powers.png\" alt=\"A panel from Action Comics #278, May 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-supergirl-lost-powers.png 475w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196105-supergirl-lost-powers-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Supergirl powerless in Action Comics #278, May 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue&#8217;s story ends with Kara considering a normal life as an adopted girl with a big question mark around if her powers will ever re-surface. We have to wait a whole month to understand how this happened, which is a nice multi-issue spanning arc complete with a decent cliff-hanger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action Comics #278 (May 1961) begins a multi-issue spanning Supergirl arc, starting with the revelation that Superman has decided to reveal the existence of Supergirl to the world. It&#8217;s been more than two years since the introduction of the Supergirl character and perhaps the writing team has run out of ways to make interesting stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,732,14,731,329,457,43,516],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-cliffhanger","tag-dc","tag-story-arc","tag-super-powers","tag-supergirl","tag-superman","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4533,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}